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To: "Brian Finlandia" <fbsdmoz@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: status of 3com 575 in 4.4-release? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:14:23 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:20:53 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> From: "Brian Finlandia" <fbsdmoz@hotmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:14:23 -0400
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> > >   I noticed that cardbus has at least been partially implemented in
> > > 4.4-release, as my orinoco wireless card now works.
> >
> >orinoco cards are not cardbus.
> >
> 
>   Then whoever wrote the release notes for 4.4-release was misled (from 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.4R/relnotes-i386.html):
> 
> "In most cases, configuration of PCMCIA devices in laptops is simpler and 
> more flexible. In addition, various Cardbus bridge PCI cards (such as those 
> used by Orinoco PCI NICs) are now supported."

You need to read carefully! "various Cardbus bridge PCI cards" means
exactly that. If you buy an Orinoco with the PCI CardBus bridge so
that you can plug it into a PCI slot in your computer, the bridge will
now work. But the Orinoco is a standard, 16-bit PCMCIA card, not a
Cardbus card. Cardbus cards simply will not work on 4.4-release. They
should work on V5.0 next year and may work in some future V4 release,
but they do not work now.

Sorry.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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